Why service provider method is called "provider", but not "provide"?

[David Holmes]

On 24/11/2020 4:46 pm, Alex Orlov wrote:
> Could you then explain the difference between service and service 
> provider? As I understand
> you’re saying they are the same. I always thought, that they were two 
> different things. For example,

They are two different things and I'm certainly not saying they are the 
same.

> what we are talking about service factory/supplier/consumer we separate 
> service from
> factory/supplier/consumer. And even in
> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.Provider.html 
> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/docs/api/java/util/ServiceLoader.Provider.html>
> we assume that this is a provider, and using this provider you can get a 
> service.

I'm not seeing the connection with what we have been discussing directly.

The provider() method returns an instance of a class that provides a 
given service. provider() could be called serviceProvider() or 
serviceImplementor() - but providor() suffices.

Cheers,
David
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> --
> Best regards, Alex Orlov
> 
>     Вторник, 24 ноября 2020, 7:47 +03:00 от David Holmes
>     <david.holmes at oracle.com>:
>     On 23/11/2020 6:28 pm, Alex Orlov wrote:
>      > > The method does return a "provider". It returns the object that
>     is an
>      > > instance of a class that provides the service - hence that
>     object is a
>      > > provider.
>      > I don’t agree with that. It returns the object that is an instance of
>      > the service.
> 
>     And that object is the service provider.
> 
>     David
>     -----
> 
>      > --
>      > Best regards, Alex Orlov
>      >
>      > Понедельник, 23 ноября 2020, 1:30 +03:00 от David Holmes
>      > <david.holmes at oracle.com </compose?To=david.holmes at oracle.com>>:
>      > On 20/11/2020 9:48 pm, Alex Orlov wrote:
>      > >
>      > > Hello all,
>      > >
>      > > According to this tutorial
>      >
>     https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html
>     <https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html>
>      >
>     <https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html
>     <https://www.logicbig.com/tutorials/core-java-tutorial/modules/service-provider-method.html>>
>      > > we can declare in module-info provider class with "provider"
>      > method. For example,
>      > >
>      > >  ......
>      > > public class TheServiceProvider {
>      > >    public static AService provider() {
>      > >        return new AServiceImpl();
>      > >    }
>      > > }
>      > >
>      > > The only thing what I don’t understand is why this method is
>      > called "provider". The method doesn’t return
>      > > provider, method returns an instance of the service, so, as I
>      > understand, the method must be named
>      > > "provide". And, as I understand, provider is usually the class,
>      > that has "provide" method.
>      >
>      > The method does return a "provider". It returns the object that is an
>      > instance of a class that provides the service - hence that object
>     is a
>      > provider.
>      >
>      > Cheers,
>      > David
>      > -----
>      >
>      > > Of course that’s not very important, but it is JDK, so it was
>      > developed by very experienced java developer
>      > > who should know java naming convention and I want to understand
>      > why this did so. Could anyone explain?
>      > >
>      > >
>      > > --
>      > > Best regards, Alex Orlov
>      > >
>      >
>